Sumire Tohsaka

【Interlude】The Garden of Everything

Touji Soya found himself sitting by the window on the third floor of the library.

It is rare to have such good weather in Kyoto in winter. Through the clear glass windows, you can see the blue sky, which is too pure, like a large piece of frosted glass, without even a cloud.

The bright sunlight falls on the wooden floor of the library, combined with the refracted snow light, the air is extraordinarily transparent, and the golden dust is like tiny golden snow, floating in the quiet room.

The air smells of old books and the aging of the wooden bookshelves.Soya Touji didn't dislike this taste, but for some reason, he still felt a little nostalgic.

He usually comes here to play chess, there is no particular reason, he just likes the cleanliness here.Very few people come, which means no one bothers you.

But today, he didn't prepare the chessboard, nor was he looking at the chess record.This is rare for Soya Touji.

All he knew was that he seemed to have made an appointment with someone to meet here.

That person hasn't come yet, so he's waiting here patiently.

The sun was blindingly bright.He closed his eyes, not knowing why, feeling incredibly calm.

"Hello."

The girl smiled slightly and bent slightly towards him.

"Can I sit here?"

He looked at her and nodded slightly.

"Please sit down."

The girl gathered her skirt and sat down beside him.For some reason, that graceful posture reminded Soya of a flower suddenly blooming.

It was really a very, very beautiful girl, with a beauty beyond her age.Sitting posture is like a white lily.The long black hair hangs down to the waist, curled naturally and softly.The facial features are exquisite, almost reminiscent of a French doll, and the eyelashes are particularly long, and when they hang down, they look like the wings of a butterfly.

Sogu Touji wanted to touch her eyelashes a little bit, wondering if it would be like the butterflies that occasionally stayed on his fingertips in childhood, with a light and strange touch.

It suddenly occurred to him that just like she fell in love with him at first sight, he also fell in love with her at first sight.

People instinctively fall in love with beautiful things.

And her beauty was like a glass flower he had never seen before.Fragile, gorgeous, but also clear and transparent, with dreamlike colors.

From the moment he saw her, he was also in love with her.

...Has he ever told her this sentence?

Touji Soya forgot.

Because they can always understand without saying it, all they need is a look, a gesture, words seem so unnecessary, so they often forget important words.

If you get a chance, tell her.

he thought vaguely.

Because, hearing this sentence, she will be very happy.

The girl next to her seemed to be waiting for someone, sitting side by side like this made even herself feel at ease.

It seems like a wonderful thing to have someone waiting with you.

It's just that in the end, neither she nor he got the person he wanted to wait for.

When the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the air orange red, the girl finally stood up and left the small library.

However, when she finally left, she turned around for some reason and said "goodbye" to him.

So, very rare, Soya Touji also raised his hand and said "goodbye" to her.

The girl holding the book, someone whose name he didn't even know, showed a crying expression for some reason.

But in the next second, she puffed up her chest again and showed him her best smile.

"Goodbye."

She said it again, and left the room flooded with the colors of the setting sun.

After the girl's footsteps completely disappeared, Soya Touji suddenly realized a fact.

That is, the person he was waiting for would not come again.

That's it.

Then there's no way.

With such a lonely state of mind, Soya Touji woke up from his dream.

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"So, to be hit by a head in a car accident and lose a month's memory... What kind of TV show are you talking about!"

The president of Jinguji sat down muttering, took out an orange from the fruit basket in the ward and began to peel it, the orange juice splashed out, and the air was filled with the aroma of citrus.He tore off the white meridians on the orange three times, but he didn't intend to hand it to Sogu Touji, instead he stuffed it into his mouth, complaining vaguely.

"However, apart from this point, the skin is not even scratched. You are really lucky."

"..."

Lucky... ?

Soya Touji silently looked away.

Seeing his familiar silent look, President Jinguji sighed heavily, and stretched out his hand to scratch his gray hair randomly.

"Really, I thought you would change a bit after falling in love...do you still look like this in the end? I can't stand it, can't even such a cute elementary school girl make you, a boring guy, a little bit more interesting? "

While complaining, the president of Jinguji watched Soya Touji's expression. After seeing Shang Soya's blank gaze, he slapped himself on the face and let out a dejected sigh.

"What, didn't you make it at all? Soya, you can't do it, Soya! It's so rare that such a cute girl likes you! It didn't work out that you'll never find a girlfriend in your life! Absolutely not!"

Soya Touji had no idea what President Jinguji was talking about, so he just looked away for no apparent reason.

Even a person as smart as the president of Jinguji would never have imagined that "a month of amnesia just enough to forget all the experiences of meeting and dating with his girlfriend" would really happen in reality, not to mention In terms of common-sense thinking, even if it happens that the boyfriend has lost his memory, at such a time, as a girlfriend, he should find a way to help him remember it.

In addition, Soya Touji never liked to talk to people, let alone a private matter such as love.Therefore, even the president of Jinguji, who is most familiar with him, doesn't know that Touji Soya has quietly made a girlfriend.

Based on President Jinguji's understanding of Touji Soya, the two of them will definitely drag on for a long time!At least until Soya's graduation ceremony, the girl asks for the second button to get it right!Yes, that's how (not) confidence he has in Touji Soya!

Therefore, the last chance to touch the truth was missed by them.

Although Sogu Touji's injuries were not serious, the hospital still ordered him to be hospitalized for observation due to his strange amnesia.When he was discharged from the hospital, not to mention the scheduled chess game, even Soya Touji missed the opening ceremony of the last semester of high school.

Soya Touji intends to follow the path of a professional chess player and will not participate in the entrance examination.So his third semester was not as busy as other high school seniors, but he was much freer.Coupled with the fact that there are more and more things about professional competitions, Soya Touji will not stay in school unless necessary.

On this day, by chance, Soya Touji went to school as he did in the past.

Walking on the familiar long slope, the boy breathed the cold winter air. When he happened to see the cherry blossom tree beside the road, he found that the branch had sprouted new buds.Come to think of it, after a while, it will sprout buds to be released again, as well as delicate new leaves.

The breath of spring is near.

It's just that when the cherry blossoms bloomed on the ramp again, he probably wasn't here anymore.

Thinking of this, even Soya Touji couldn't help but feel a little sad.

He turned around and walked towards the school where he was about to graduate, stepping on the snow that hadn't completely melted away.

Juniors from the first and second grades laughed and hurried past him, and Soya's footsteps followed his usual rhythm, walking neither fast nor slow.

It's just that when I passed someone, I suddenly had a wonderful intuition.

Like when he made a bad move, a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and the skin on his fingertips was slightly peeled off, a strange intuition.

Sogu Touji turned his head subconsciously, a strand of raw silk-like black hair was gently blown across his cheek by the wind.

However, behind the long ramp, he saw no one.

The students walking in twos and threes were like a small trickle, constantly flowing past him.

However, he didn't see the person who made him inexplicably concerned.

... an illusion?

Soya Touji thought so, turned around, and continued to walk forward.

The remaining thoughts like thin snow also dissipated from his mind like thin snow.

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Later, I don't know how many years later, Soya Touji accidentally found a strange picture book.

The author's name is Haruka Asahi, who seems to be a well-known picture book author. His descendants said "This picture book was published in the year you graduated from high school, Soya-san", and then gave this book together with other fan-like gifts Forcibly gave it to him.

Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was a whim, Soya Touji opened the picture book.

The name of the picture book is "The Man Who Stole the Moon", and the cover is painted in gloomy, deep and light blue. In the blue night sky that makes people feel lonely, a golden full moon hangs high there.

The beginning of the story is just a very simple sentence.

"There was a man who fell in love with the moon."

[There is a person who fell in love with the moon.

By chance, he knew that there was a very tall tree in a place, and he could get close to the moon as long as he climbed it.

He found the tree and climbed and climbed from dawn to night, and when he reached the top of the tree, the moon just came out.

The moon is big, bright, and very, very beautiful.

The man wanted to reach out and touch the moon.

But because it was too close, he accidentally picked off the whole moon.

The moon is in his hands, exuding an incomparably beautiful light.

So, that person took the moon.

In order not to let others discover that he had stolen the moon, he put the moon in his arms and hurriedly walked on the night road.

go, go.

The man who stole the moon stopped suddenly.

Was this road originally so dark?

Can't see anything, everything is scary.

Why was it never noticed in the past?

Because the moon has been shining on him.

The night is too dark.

It cannot do without the moon.

Maybe the moon also thinks the night sky is better.

Although it is lonely, it must not matter to the moon.

So at last, he found the giant tree again.

Climb and crawl, through the second dawn to night.

The man who stole the moon returned the moon.

But because he was too tired, when he hung the moon back to the sky, his feet were empty and he fell from the branch.

When falling, the man looked at the moon and couldn't help thinking this way.

"Moonlight, it's really beautiful."]

"Mr. Soya...what's wrong?"

The young junior looked at him anxiously.

Soya Touji closed the book and shook his head lightly.

"there is nothing."

He turned his head sideways and looked at the equally beautiful full moon outside the window.

"I just think it's a really good story."